André Brito
@andre-brito.bsky.social
I teach in UX and storytelling, do the odd video documentary, and am a centrist with an eye to the left and no political allegiance.
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You may recall that in January of 2025, artist Ann Telnaes announced that she had quit The Washington Post after editors killed a cartoon that depicted owner Jeff Bezos, among others, genuflecting to Trump.
This cartoon feels even more relevant this week.
This cartoon feels even more relevant this week.
February 7, 2026 at 12:01 AM
You may recall that in January of 2025, artist Ann Telnaes announced that she had quit The Washington Post after editors killed a cartoon that depicted owner Jeff Bezos, among others, genuflecting to Trump.
This cartoon feels even more relevant this week.
This cartoon feels even more relevant this week.
So, this is what true altruism looks like....
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump says he’ll free infrastructure funds for New York if Penn Station is renamed after him
Trump also demanded Dulles airport be given his name in exchange for funding NY-NJ tunnel and subway extension
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:17 PM
So, this is what true altruism looks like....
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Microsoft CEO says AI “risks becoming a speculative bubble unless its use spreads beyond big tech companies and wealthy economies.” Brother you’re the one building this dogshit, we’re three years and hundreds of billions in, how have you not worked it out?
www.ft.com/content/2a29...
www.ft.com/content/2a29...
January 20, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Microsoft CEO says AI “risks becoming a speculative bubble unless its use spreads beyond big tech companies and wealthy economies.” Brother you’re the one building this dogshit, we’re three years and hundreds of billions in, how have you not worked it out?
www.ft.com/content/2a29...
www.ft.com/content/2a29...
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OpenAI has absolutely zero ideas. They have no business. This is not a real business line and it’s so utterly vague and specious, I’m shocked at the credulousness to just print it without saying “there is no logical way this works of course” or talking about how the CFO of OpenAI is saying nonsense
January 20, 2026 at 5:11 AM
OpenAI has absolutely zero ideas. They have no business. This is not a real business line and it’s so utterly vague and specious, I’m shocked at the credulousness to just print it without saying “there is no logical way this works of course” or talking about how the CFO of OpenAI is saying nonsense
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Veronika 🏆🧪 BEST SCIENCE COW
(strongly advise you watch the adorable video)
(strongly advise you watch the adorable video)
January 19, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Veronika 🏆🧪 BEST SCIENCE COW
(strongly advise you watch the adorable video)
(strongly advise you watch the adorable video)
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New study finds that some dogs are able to learn new words from overhearing conversations not directed at them, with a facility comparable to that of 18-month old human infants.
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Dogs with a large vocabulary of object labels learn new labels by overhearing like 1.5-year-old infants
Children as young as 18 months can acquire novel words by overhearing third-party interactions. Demonstrating similar learning processes in nonhuman species would indicate that the social-cognitive sk...
www.science.org
January 19, 2026 at 5:53 PM
New study finds that some dogs are able to learn new words from overhearing conversations not directed at them, with a facility comparable to that of 18-month old human infants.
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Bank of England ‘must plan for a financial crisis triggered by aliens’
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Imagine those aliens landing on earth, beaming out of their ship in front of the human delegation, and saying: "Have you released the Epstein Files?"
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Imagine those aliens landing on earth, beaming out of their ship in front of the human delegation, and saying: "Have you released the Epstein Files?"
Bank of England ‘must plan for a financial crisis triggered by aliens’
Financial markets could collapse if the American government confirms the existence of alien life
www.independent.co.uk
January 19, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Bank of England ‘must plan for a financial crisis triggered by aliens’
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Imagine those aliens landing on earth, beaming out of their ship in front of the human delegation, and saying: "Have you released the Epstein Files?"
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Imagine those aliens landing on earth, beaming out of their ship in front of the human delegation, and saying: "Have you released the Epstein Files?"
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A paper in Nature suggests that artificial intelligence models that are trained to behave badly on a narrow task may generalize this behaviour across unrelated tasks, such as offering malicious advice. go.nature.com/4jFIRcc 🧪
January 15, 2026 at 2:21 PM
A paper in Nature suggests that artificial intelligence models that are trained to behave badly on a narrow task may generalize this behaviour across unrelated tasks, such as offering malicious advice. go.nature.com/4jFIRcc 🧪
Basically: "Blah, blah, blah", then “opening European markets to US goods and services” - substandard food, i.e "health" providers to rip-off national health services, and siphoning public infrastructure money to the US, plus great replacement BS.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Cultivate resistance’: policy paper lays bare Trump support for Europe’s far right
Text signed by president seems to echo ‘great replacement’ theory, saying Europe faces ‘civilisational erasure’
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Basically: "Blah, blah, blah", then “opening European markets to US goods and services” - substandard food, i.e "health" providers to rip-off national health services, and siphoning public infrastructure money to the US, plus great replacement BS.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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“In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker who arrived on a boat. Today we have 46,000 a year and do you know why? It was because of the botched Brexit deal pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage should be here apologising”
Daisy Cooper
Daisy Cooper
December 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
“In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker who arrived on a boat. Today we have 46,000 a year and do you know why? It was because of the botched Brexit deal pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage should be here apologising”
Daisy Cooper
Daisy Cooper
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I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Water reserves are drying up, so let's build some massive data centres to dry them up faster! Go big or go broke, right?!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Water reserves are drying up, so let's build some massive data centres to dry them up faster! Go big or go broke, right?!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Trump: "I inherited a war that should never have happened...." Dude, you inherited nothing! We - Europeans - but Ukrainians more than anyone else, inherited Russia's abuse, partly because of you couldn't stand up to Putin. BAD president!
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Trump blasts Ukraine for ‘zero gratitude’ as Germany says deal to end war unlikely to be reached by Thursday deadline – live
Chancellor Friedrich Merz says ‘we are still a long way from that’ as Trump blasts Ukrainian leadership on social media
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Trump: "I inherited a war that should never have happened...." Dude, you inherited nothing! We - Europeans - but Ukrainians more than anyone else, inherited Russia's abuse, partly because of you couldn't stand up to Putin. BAD president!
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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The Spectator and others have chosen (deliberately I suspect) to interpret this article as a desire to stop a future Reform UK government from legislating. My purpose is to stop *any* government crushing our fundamental rights. It’s just more urgent now. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We must act now: without a written constitution, Reform UK will have carte blanche to toxify our nation | Goerge Monbiot
It means breaking with hundreds of years of tradition, but it can’t wait. As hard-right figures spread division and laud autocrats, a fail-safe is vital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
The Spectator and others have chosen (deliberately I suspect) to interpret this article as a desire to stop a future Reform UK government from legislating. My purpose is to stop *any* government crushing our fundamental rights. It’s just more urgent now. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is THE crux of problem with polarised politics in MHO. We all need to become more savvy about the motivations behind single-issue politics, usually against someone (group) or something. Follow the money, then ask: "What do they get from this?" Then decide if that's improving society.
October 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
This is THE crux of problem with polarised politics in MHO. We all need to become more savvy about the motivations behind single-issue politics, usually against someone (group) or something. Follow the money, then ask: "What do they get from this?" Then decide if that's improving society.
Easy buzz words like "Woke Liberati" and "Gone DEI mad" show zero interest in bringing people together. Gutter politics, always whining about some "Other" who can't defend themselves. If you can't cope with diversity, why are you even in politics?!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform MP’s remarks about TV adverts were ‘racist’, says Wes Streeting
Health secretary hardens Labour line after Sarah Pochin said advertising ‘doesn’t reflect our society’
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Easy buzz words like "Woke Liberati" and "Gone DEI mad" show zero interest in bringing people together. Gutter politics, always whining about some "Other" who can't defend themselves. If you can't cope with diversity, why are you even in politics?!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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At last the Impact of Brexit is being called out
“When we left the European Union we left the Dublin Convention & that means where as before we could have returned people to the continent, back to the first safe country they arrived in, that doesn’t exist anymore”
Wes Streeting
“When we left the European Union we left the Dublin Convention & that means where as before we could have returned people to the continent, back to the first safe country they arrived in, that doesn’t exist anymore”
Wes Streeting
October 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
At last the Impact of Brexit is being called out
“When we left the European Union we left the Dublin Convention & that means where as before we could have returned people to the continent, back to the first safe country they arrived in, that doesn’t exist anymore”
Wes Streeting
“When we left the European Union we left the Dublin Convention & that means where as before we could have returned people to the continent, back to the first safe country they arrived in, that doesn’t exist anymore”
Wes Streeting
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We're facing a political emergency: a high likelihood of an shamelessly authoritarian government in 2029. So we urgently need this basic safeguard: a codified constitution.
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We must act now: without a written constitution, Reform UK will have carte blanche to toxify our nation | Goerge Monbiot
It means breaking with hundreds of years of tradition, but it can’t wait. As hard-right figures spread division and laud autocrats, a fail-safe is vital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:44 AM
We're facing a political emergency: a high likelihood of an shamelessly authoritarian government in 2029. So we urgently need this basic safeguard: a codified constitution.
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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So when Farage rails against the latest migration figures, he's railing against a monster of his own making. The EU didn't impose uncontrolled immigration on us; it offered a framework that reflected geography, economics and reality”
ie - control.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/peop...
ie - control.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/peop...
People are just realising that we had a better grip on immigration within the EU
They gave us bar staff and builders - we gave them sunburnt pensioners and seaside property booms. It was win-win.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:32 AM
So when Farage rails against the latest migration figures, he's railing against a monster of his own making. The EU didn't impose uncontrolled immigration on us; it offered a framework that reflected geography, economics and reality”
ie - control.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/peop...
ie - control.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/peop...
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Is it time for that conversation about the "will of the people"?
Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…
October 20, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Is it time for that conversation about the "will of the people"?
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Oh.
Reform UK has been forced to reject more unlawful donations than any other British political party in 2025
the party has had to give back almost £200,000 this year from 18 impermissible donors, according to Electoral Commission data
www.ft.com/content/5392...
the party has had to give back almost £200,000 this year from 18 impermissible donors, according to Electoral Commission data
www.ft.com/content/5392...
October 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Oh.
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🔥🔥🔥 Here's Emily Maitlis crucifying Farage for both breaking the UK and stabbing it in the back.
#FascistFarage
#FascistFarage
September 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🔥🔥🔥 Here's Emily Maitlis crucifying Farage for both breaking the UK and stabbing it in the back.
#FascistFarage
#FascistFarage